Word: conquistador
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...been five centuries since Pedro de Alvarado, a homicidal Spanish conquistador, seized from the Maya the volcanic realm that became Guatemala. But his bloodlust still haunts the country, which today has one of the highest homicide rates in the western hemisphere. Guatemala's 36-year-long civil war, which ended in 1996, killed 200,000 people. Its cloak-and-dagger murders have made locals so paranoid that "even the drunks are discreet," as one 19th century visitor wrote...
...search of a dream: “He could not stand it: first to seduce, to conquer, an entire nation and then… to stand naked in all his vacuity before his wife, the woman he loved, the only person he really wished to conquer; he was a conquistador who had won everything, then suddenly found himself confronted with a culture which he did not understand and which he therefore had to destroy.”“The Conqueror” is a pleasant, easy read since it’s broken up into convenient and short...
...then figures, not pictures, were what mattered to this Conquistador of Hollywood's global domination. Testifying (at astounding length) before the House Judiciary Committee in 1982, Valenti boasted that the U.S. movie industry "returned to this country almost $1 billion in surplus balance of trade." A decade later that number had tripled...
Director Darren S. Aronofsky ’91 may have grabbed all the attention in 2006 with his overblown “The Fountain” and its time-traveling spaceman conquistador M.D. hero, but it’s another alum, Andrew Bujalski ’98, that really got down to the heart of the Harvard experience. The hyper-indie characters in “Mutual Appreciation” are nice enough, but they are unable to relate to each other and will never have sex—which makes this an ideal movie to get drunk to. Because...
...spurred by revenge (you killed my father, so I must wipe out your civilization). Here, love is the driving force (I will do anything to keep you alive), making The Fountain the rare quest film with a hero as selfless as he is besotted. Izzy calls Tom ?my conquistador!? and she?s not kidding...